Land Cover Land Use Change Effects on Surface Water Quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWiFS Assessment of the Dnieper and Don River Basins and their Reservoirs

Start Date:

01/01/2005

End Date:

01/01/2008

Project Call:

Land-Cover Land-Use Change

Science Theme:

Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC

Water and Energy Cycle Impacts

Regional Initiative:

GOFC-GOLD Regional Networks

Region:

Europe

Eastern Europe

Solicitation:

LCLUC-04

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
Anatoly Gitelson	Principal Investigator	University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
Geoffrey Henebry	Co-Investigator	Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Abstract:

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the years of turbulent socioeconomic transition during the rest of the decade is now recognized as one of the largest and most rapid LCLUC events of the 20th century. The principal mechanism of LCLUC was the disintegration of the institutions of centralized control over the agricultural sector, without which the agricultural sector contracted sharply throughout the region. Changes in surface water quality in the wake of the collapse have been documented across Europe. This project focuses on two interrelated questions: (1) What are the significant, observable linkages between LCLUC and reservoir water quality? (2) Can reservoir water quality be effectively monitored using SeaWiFS and MODIS standard data products and new value-added products? We are evaluating the applicability of an inversion technique we developed to retrieve chlorophyll-a concentrations using reflectance spectra from turbid productive waters. We are testing these algorithms using MODIS and SeaWiFS data to monitor chlorophyll and total suspended matter concentrations in large reservoirs in Dnieper and Don River basins and in Azov Sea (Figure 1). We are also evaluating the trends in land surface vegetation. Image time series from MODIS reveal substantial regional heterogeneity in vegetation trends from 2000-2007.

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2010	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Chipman, J.W., L.G. Olmanson, and A.A. Gitelson. (2010). Remote Sensing Methods for Lake Management: A guide for resource managers and decision-makers. Developed by the North American Lake Management Society in collaboration with Dartmouth College, University of Minnesota, and University of Nebraska for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 126pp.
2010	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Matishov, G. G., Povazhnyi, V. V., Berdnikov, S. V., Moses, W. J., and A. A. Gitelson. (2010). Satellite Estimation of Chlorophyll-a Concentration and Phytoplankton Primary Production in the Sea of Azov. Proceedings of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doklady Biological Sciences, 432, 216–219.
2009	Geoffrey Henebry	Publications	Kovalskyy V, and GM Henebry. 2009b. Recent trends in land surface phenologies within the Don and Dnieper River basins from the perspective of MODIS Collection 4 products. In: (P.Ya. Groisman and S. Ivanov, eds.). Regional aspects of climate-terrestrial-hydrologic interactions in non-boreal Eastern Europe. Springer: Berlin. Chapter 20, pp. 183-189.
2009	Geoffrey Henebry	Publications	Kovalskyy V, and GM Henebry. 2009a. Change and persistence in land surface phenologies of the Don and Dnieper River basins Environmental Research Letters, 4:045018.
2009	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Gitelson, A. A., D. Gurlin, W. J Moses and T. Barrow. (2009). A bio-optical algorithm for the remote estimation of the chlorophyll-a concentration in case 2 waters. Environ. Res. Lett., 4 (2009) 045003 (5pp), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045003.
2009	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Moses, W. J., A. A. Gitelson, S. Berdnikov, and V. Povazhnyy. (2009). Estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration in case II waters using MODIS and MERIS data-successes and challenges. Environ. Res. Lett., 4 045005 (8pp), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045005.
2006	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Dall’Olmo, G and A.A. Gitelson. 2006. Absorption properties of dissolved and particulate matter in turbid productive inland lakes, Ocean Optics XVIII, Montreal, Quebec, 9-13 October, 2006, pp. 1-15.
2006	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Dall'Olmo, G. and A. A. Gitelson, Effect of bio-optical parameter variability and uncertainties in reflectance measurements on the remote estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration in turbid productive waters: modeling results, Applied Optics, 20 May 2006, Vol. 45, No. 15, 3577-3592
2005	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Dall’Olmo, G., Gitelson, A.A., Rundquist, D.C., Leavitt, B., Barrow, T., and Holz, J.C. (2005). Assessing the potential of SeaWiFS and MODIS for estimating chlorophyll concentration in turbid productive waters using red and near-infrared bands, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 96: 176-187.
2005	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Dall’Olmo, G., and A. A. Gitelson. (2005). Effect of bio-optical parameter variability on the remote estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration in turbid productive waters: experimental results, Applied Optics, Vol. 44, No. 3, 20 January 2005, 412-422. (Correction)
2005		Abstract	Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dnieper and Don river basins and their reservoirs
2003	Anatoly Gitelson	Publications	Dall'Olmo, G., A. A. Gitelson, and D. C. Rundquist, Towards a unified approach for remote estimation of chlorophyll-a in both terrestrial vegetation and turbid productive waters, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(18), 1938, doi:10.1029/2003GL018065, 2003.